There's an electrical thing about movies.
From Oliver Stone
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.
I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.
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